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Rabbi declines to apologize for sexist derision of female soliders
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA controversial rabbi who runs a pre-army religious academy declines to apologize for telling new IDF recruits yesterday that military service drives female soldiers “crazy” and strips them of their Jewishness.
Rabbi Yigal Levinstein tells Channel 2 the “feminist approach” of the IDF is “incompatible with Jewish law,” and he won’t “retract a single word of what I believe.”
Levinstein says the way he made yesterday’s remarks was “inappropriate,” and expresses regret for “hurting people in the way I communicated myself.”
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